{"product_id":"the-technical-imagination-beatriz-sarlo-9780804735421","title":"The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn what Beatriz Sarlo calls six \"episodes,\" ranging from the proto-science fiction of Horacio Quiroga and the apocalyptic urban surrealism of Roberto Arlt through the development of mass media, tales of inventors and inventions, and an entertaining tour of \"weird science\" and medical quackery, \u003ci\u003eThe Technical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e examines how technology entered the popular imagination in 1920s and 1930s Argentina. Often wry, but always sympathetic, and dispensing erudition with a light touch, Sarlo shows how the products of modern technology (radio, the telephone and telegraph, movies, and rudimentary forays into television, among other phenomena) announced an unprecedented break with the past while also provoking an ironic recrudescence of age-old superstitions. Although the new technologies helped to shape notions of modernity at all levels of Argentine society, Sarlo focuses particularly on the working-class amateur inventors of Buenos Aires, and on how their inventions--even when they failed, as they frequently did--point to what can be recognized today as the reorganization of an intellectual hierarchy, and thus of an era's, and a culture's, intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Beatriz Sarlo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804735425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804735421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 5.92w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2008 pg. 352","brand":"Beatriz Sarlo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120255365375,"sku":"9780804735421","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21cdba8f-86bb-4483-8836-da8ed3511839.jpg?v=1687413328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-technical-imagination-beatriz-sarlo-9780804735421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}